- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 26720
- Description
- On a rectangular light brown wooden backboard, the longer axis horizontal, is a brass plaque. At the outside edges of the plaque is a wide floriate border of leaves and acorns interwoven with rope and in each corner a square panel with crossed fouled anchors. At centre top is a square panel with the coat of arms of the Hood Family surrounded by heraldic mantling. All the decoration and lettering is incised and coloured black. The brass appears to have a reddish tinge possibly an unusually large proportion of copper.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ THREE GALLANT DORSET SAILORS,/ SONS OF SAMUEL HOOD, PURSER RN /OF KINGSLAND, NETHERBURY/ AND ANN HIS WIFE./ LIEUT. ARTHUR HOOD RN (1753-1775) /DROWNED WHILE SERVING IN THE WEST INDIES /ON BOARD HMS POMONA./ CAPTAIN ALEXANDER HOOD RN (1758-1798)/ KILLED IN THE HOUR OF VICTORY WHILE /COMMANDING HMS MARS IN HER FAMOUS DUEL/ WITH THE FRENCH SHIP L'HERCULE./ AND ADMIRAL SIR SAMUEL HOOD BART/. KB. KSF./ SOMETIME MP FOR BRIDPORT/, WHO SERVED HIS COUNTRY WITH/ GREAT DISTINCTION UNDER LORD NELSON/ AT SANTA CRUZ 1797 AND IN COMMAND/ OF HMS ZEALOUS AT THE GLORIOUS/ BATTLE OF THE NILE AS WELL AS AT ROCHEFORT /(1806) WHEN HE LOST HIS RIGHT ARM/. HE WAS BORN AT KINGSLAND 27TH NOV 1762/ DIED WHILE ON ACTIVE SERVICE AT MADRAS /WHILE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN THE /EAST INDIES 24TH DEC 1814./ ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ IN THE YEAR 1914/